Augustan Gothic

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Augustan to Gothic

Literature 1713-1789



Augustan to Gothic Literature1713-1789

Chronological landmarks

• The German House of Hanover took

over the ritish throne• The Augustans took their name from

the classical Latin age of Augustus

•

171!-17"7 George #• 17"7-17$% George ##



• 17$%-18"% George ###

• #ndustrial &evolution and Agricultural

&evolution• 'an( )eo)le moved from the countr(

to the ne* cities to +nd *ork

•

,migration of #rish and cottish)eo)le to the ne* colonies inAmerica



•

The American .eclaration of#nde)endence in 177$

• The /rench &evolution in 1789



• The &ise of the 0ovel the novel2ecame more and more im)ortantreaching a huge num2er of readers4

5recedents of the novel

•

Classical )recedents Petronius’sSatyricon 61st centur( LuciusApuleiuss Golden Ass 6"nd centur(



• The medieval romance

•

The )icares:ue tradition Lazarillo deTormes 61;;! Mateo AlemansGuzmán de Alfarache 61;;9Quevedos La vida del Buscón 61$"$4

• The travel 2ooks



•

<thers Cervantes’s Don Quijote 6trans4 1$1" The Authorised Versionof the Bile 61$11 John Bunyan’sThe !il"rim#s !ro"ress 61$78



Features of the novel

• #nterest in the re)resentation ofe=)erience and ho* to live

• .escri)tion of the 2ad side of life 2ut*ith a ha))( ending

•

Techni:ues /irst-)erson narratorsletters and diaries third-)erson all-kno*ing narrator



Main novelists

•Daniel Defoe 61$$%-1731 $oinson%rusoe 61719 &oll 'landers 617""4He uses a +rst-)erson narrator *hotells the stor( as if it reall( ha))ened

• Jonathan Sift 61$$7-17!;Gulliver#s Travels 617"$



• Samuel !ichardson 61$89-17$1

!amela 617!% %larissa 617!7-!84 Hee=amined female ideas and circumstances

• "enry Fieldin# 617%7-17;! (ose)h Andre*s 617!1 Tom (ones 617!94 He

descri2es the e=)eriences his male herousgo through and ho* the( form theircharacter4



• Laurence Sterne 61713-$8

Tristram Shandy 617$%-$74 #t is along comic stor( *hich )la(s *ithtime )lot and character and even

*ith the sha)e and design of the)age4 >se of the stream ofconsciousness techni:ue



$othic novels

• Gothic novels go 2e(ond realism andmoral instruction4 The( e=)lore e=trems

of feeling and imagination

• Horace ?al)ole The %astle of +tranto617$!

• Ann &adcli@e 617$!-18"3 The&ysteries of ,dol)ho 6179!

• 'atthe* Le*is The &on- 6179$



Satirical Poetry

•

Ale%ander Pope 61$88-17!! The$a)e of the Loc- 6171"



Pre&!omantic Poetry

• 'homas $ray 6171$-1771 .le"y/ritten in a %ountry %hurchyard 617;14 The )oem cele2rates the livesand deeds of the )oor ordinar()eo)le 2uried in the church(ard in

the small village of toke 5oges4 #t2ecame one of the most )o)ular and*ell kno*n of all ,nglish )oems



• (liver $oldsmith 617"8-17!! TheDeserted Villa"e 6177%

• )illiam Collins 617"1-17;9 +des617!$

• Charlotte Smith ,legiac onnets6178!



• !o*ert Burns4 He *as the greatestcottish )oet4 His themes are nature

and the humanit( of nature4 ome)oems are To a 'ouse 6178$ TheCotters aturda( 0ight 6178$4

• 'an( of urnss songs are still *ellkno*n

• He *as ver( much admired 2( the

&omantic )oets



Journalism and Criticism• The gro*th of the ne* middle classes

increased the demand for the )rinted

*ord

• ?riting 2ecame a )rofession

• 'an( famous ne*s)a)ers andmagaBines *ere started at this time



• The ournalism of the earl(eighteenth centur( took the o)inionsand fashions of the ca)ital cit(

London to the *hole nation

• ,arl( magaBines The Tatler 617%9-1711 The S)ectator 61711-171"



Criticism

• Samuel Johnson *as the maor critic

of the time

• 'aor ?orks Dictionary of the .n"lishLan"ua"e 617;; The Lives of the.n"lish !oets 61779-81

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